4 Jun
2009
4 Jun
'09
8:31 a.m.
2009/6/2 Mr Ian Primus wrote:
Did you clean the heads AND the leader strip? I had
one with so much fuzz
on it that it would have surely gunked up the heads straight away. You
can clean the leader with alcohol, just like the heads. Sometimes these
things need multiple cleanings...
I cleaned pretty much everything /but/ the
leader. It's worth a try,
but it looks pretty spotless.
I assume you've got this connected to a PDP-11 or
Vax that you're using
to write to it, and that this isn't the SCSI flavored TK50Z.
Yep, it's the
"regular" TK50 hooked up to a Qbus TQK50 controller.
--
Steve Maddison
http://www.cosam.org/